Coretta Scott King leaves hospital

ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King went home from the hospital Thursday more than a month after suffering a stroke and a mild heart attack.

``Our prayers have been answered,'' said her daughter the Rev. Bernice King, who was flanked by her sister, Yolanda, at a news conference.

The 78-year-old-widow of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been recovering at Piedmont Hospital since Aug. 16. The stroke initially left her unable to speak or move her right side, but she has made some recovery over the past five weeks, doctors said.

King participates in three hours of daily therapy and has regained some of her speech. Doctors and family members said she will continue to undergo rehabilitation at her home and they expect a full recovery.

``Our mother is coming home, and we are so grateful and so thankful that this is happening,'' Yolanda King said.

She and her husband married in 1953. After his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, she kept his dream alive while also raising their four children.

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